“Show #25: Dear You” Exhibition
Field Projects
[Image: Jonathan Chapline "Gradient Mesh Based Vector Portrait" (2014)]
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Field Projects presents DEAR YOU a group exhibition featuring the work of fifteen artists whose paintings and sculptures approach the figure through graphic formalism and irreverent or disembodied portraiture. The exhibition includes Jonathan Chapline, April Childers, Nicole Dyer, Yuhi Hasegawa, Matthew Hilvers, Zebadiah Keneally, Karen Lederer, Donald Mengay, Eliadiie Musaieva, Jack Bruml Norton, Esteban Ocampo Giraldo, Ellen Siebers, B. Thom Stevenson, Tony Toscani, and Tyler Weeks.
Achieving composition through bold color and pattern, decisive shape, and perspective, these works represent a clear moment in time, framing the subject within the picture plane as if captured at close range. Moments of vulnerability, insecurity, and uncertainty intrude on depictions of study, repose, and reflection, mimicking the mercurial process of creating art. The self-portrait of the artist, disembodied by his or her own self-representation, emerges from this encounter between the critical eye and the exposed self. The hand is tethered to the heart.
The works in this exhibition make it possible to consider looking without seeing, or touching without feeling, and vice versa. They exemplify the artist Nora Griffin’s statement that painting is “a form of longing” enacted through time spent during the process of making art – a longing that is reciprocated by the viewer through sustained engagement.
An accompanying online exhibition includes works by Canyon Castator, Piotr Chizinski, Steve Shymob Danielson, Lyla Duey, Zoe Hawk, Maiko Kikuchi, Tyler Lafreniere, Steven Mykietyn, Amanda Nedham, David Shaughnessy, Edra Soto, and Leah Tacha.
The works in this exhibition were selected by Olivia Smith based on themes that emerged in the process of reviewing hundreds of submissions through Field Projects Winter Open Call. Smith is Director of ExhibitionA.com: an online platform for contemporary art which creates and distributes new, signed limited edition prints in collaboration with artists on a weekly basis.
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Schedule
from April 09, 2015 to May 16, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-04-16 from 18:00 to 20:00